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The Lucayan were those Arawak which inhabited the Bahamas at the time of Christopher Columbus' landing. They were the first Amerindians encountered by the Spanish (Oct. 12, 1492).

Columbus wrote, "As soon as I arrived I took some of the natives by force."

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The Lucayans
by: Sandra Riley, Alton Lowe
05 December, 1990

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The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of the Bahamas (The Ripley P. Bullen Series/Florida Museum of Natural History)
by: William F. Keegan
01 November, 1992

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Analysis of a Lucayan food procurement site, Man Head Cay, San Salvador, Bahamas (Occasional paper)
by: Robert W Morris
1987

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